Tag: Apples

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  Putting The Native Apple Back In The Big Apple

  Schoolchildren plant a forgotten apple tree in New York.

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  Ask Pablo: What Is The Greenest Booze?

  Ask Pablo answers: What's the greenest kind of booze we can drink this holiday season?

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  9 Easy Recipes for Small-Batch Fruit and Vegetable Canning and Preserving

  Fruits and vegetables last all winter with jams, fruit butter, marmalades, and pickled vegetables from new cookbook Home Canning by Janet Cooper.

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  Ask Pablo: Which Favorite Holiday Pie Is The Greenest to Bake?

  Which holiday pie is greenest? Pumpkin, apple, or pecan? Find out in this week's Ask Pablo!

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  Scott Amron's Fruitwash Label Solves Huge Design Problem

  It has challenged designers since the invention of the bar code: What to do about those stupid little labels?

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  The Week in Pictures: New Zealand Oil Spill, How Steve Jobs Changed the World, and More (Slideshow)

  Since the Rena, a Liberian ship, ran aground on a reef off the coast of New Zealand 10 days ago, an environmental catastrophe has been brewing. Oil is spilling into the ocean, harming wildlife and reaching shore.

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  NYC Has Been Buzzing With Apples And Honey

  Honeybee Baby and Mom at the Honey Festival Photo By Bonnie Hulkower With Rosh Hashana just a few days ago, I am still remembering the taste of honey drenched apples and challah. There have been plenty of apples and honeys all over NYC in the past

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  Adventures In Honey- A Rosh Hashana Love Story At Saul's Deli

  Rosh Hashana, also known as the Jewish New Year, was celebrated this past week. One of the iconic symbols of the holiday, is honey, which is eaten with challah and apples. Honey has important meaning for the celebrants of Rosh

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  Wintermarket Wonderland at the Seaport

  Hundreds of people weathered the blizzard last Sunday to support New Amsterdam's Wintermarket in lower Manhattan. The New Amsterdam Market is not your

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  New York Subway Train Filled With Apples Is Emptied Onto Platform, Illustrates Food Waste (Video)

  Every day, New York City residents waste 270,000 pounds of food. Want to know what that looks like? Here's an unforgettable way to imagine it - fill up a subway train with the equivalent amount of apples, and release it onto the

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  The Week in Pictures: Rot-Proof Apple, Surprises at GreenBuild, Bacteria Lights Up Landmines, and More

  From the news that scientists have created a bacteria that lights up around landmines to the development of a rot-proof apple--that stays fresh for 4 months--a lot happened this week in green. A new study called The Economics of Ecosystems and

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  Scientists Develop Rot-Proof Apple that Stays Fresh for 4 Months

  Photo credit: Abhijit Tembhekar via Flickr/Creative Commons digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/scientists-develop-rot-proof-apple-stays-fresh-four-months.php';Scientists in Australia have developed an apple that won't rot. Or, won't rot

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  Sowing the Seeds of Sustainability: Victory Gardens are Back!

  During World War II ordinary citizens across the country did their part for the war effort by planting victory gardens to lessen the demand on the food system caused by the war. Some have suggested that sustainability is about returning to the more

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  Wild Progenitors of Domestic Fruit & Nut Trees in Central Asia Threatened with Extinction

  There's a , and now trees in Central Asia have theirs as well. The

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  12 Fruits with the Most Pesticides (Slideshow)

  "Eat organic," you hear, over and over again. But it can be tough to find organic versions of your favorite fruits and vegetables all the time, so, how do you know which are most important to eat organic?

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  12 Fruits with the Most Pesticides

  Peaches top the list of most pesticide-ridden fruits, with some combination of up to 53 pesticides found on all the peaches in the study...yikes. With their relatively thin skin, peeling and washing can only do so much, so this one tops the list of fruits

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  Is That Juicy Peach Poisonous? EWG Dishes Out Their Updated Dirty Dozen List

  The Dirty Dozen is back. No, we're not talking about the movie—it's the recently released, fifth edition of The Environmental Working Group's (EWG) list of the 12 conventionally grown fruits and veggies with the

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  Frugal, Organic, Sugarfree - What More Could A Dessert Want to Be?

  Deep from the innards of the TreeHugger test kitchen (ok, there's no TH test kitchen, just the hordes of us hungry bloggers trying to keep both budget and taste buds happy) emerges a new, quick, and decidedly healthy everyday